In a video making the rounds on the Internet, a woman giddily compares her first time voting for Barack Obama to the choice of a first sex partner.

It was a tad vulgar and drew immediate, unflattering and often hilarious comparisons of the two acts.

But it also made me remember my first experience voting, and I wondered about how others remembered it. I raised the question on Facebook, and the recollections were similar to my own – clear, but not very sexy.

Though the Greeks thought of “hubris” as an act of arrogant pride that invited divine retribution, our modern view tends more toward the Biblical “pride goes before a fall”: the overconfidence of a person in a position of power that precedes his or her own demise.

That’s where Georgia’s Democratic Party found themselves after the 2000 Census. They could see the state trending Republican, but were so overconfident that they felt comfortable pushing the limits of their authority.

Of all the candidates running for office whose district touches Columbia County, the most intriguing might very well be David Vogel.

I’m pretty sure you have no idea who that is. Don’t worry; he isn’t going to be elected, so you won’t have to remember it. And most people in Columbia County will never see his name on the ballot, because it appears in just one precinct.

That’s important to point out because I’ve heard from lots of people during this campaign season who wonder if I am related to the Augusta lawyer. I’m not.

Once that’s clear, it’s easier to understand why I am not supporting Paschall in the Augusta Judicial Circuit district attorney’s race. Of course, I’ve had relatives run for office before – Christopher Hudson is the most recent example – so that’s certainly no guarantee of support anyway.

About once a week, I get an email from a group that purports to be in direct contact with God. Nothing unusual there; a great many people, me included, believe they have regular conversations with their Creator.

What makes these missives different is that they claim God is telling them the United States is about to be destroyed by terrorist cells planted in the country.

In fact, some politicians take those road names more seriously than their own campaign promises.

We’ve had a proliferation of vanity names for street-stubs. Grovetown High School, for example, fronts William Few Parkway, which everyone knows. But its address comes from its service entrance, “Warrior Way,” which no one knows.

We’ve had our share of sports scandals around here, with a “headphone” incident at Evans High School that we haven’t forgotten nearly two decades later, and the Lakeside “trick play” that essentially cost an otherwise great coach his job.

Note: This should have mentioned that the original verdict in the case was reversed on appeal by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, though it still stands that Elaine Matthews won her battle against the commissioners in the court of her peers.

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about the fact that the employees of the Medical College of Georgia/Georgia Health Sciences University and Augusta State University have been zip-lipped about the abominable “Georgia Regents University” name for the combined schools.